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Bek's Sultry Clouds

Do yourself a favour.
Listen to Bek's beautiful and haunting "Cloud Pictures".
She wrote and orchestrated it all herself.
It's simply beautiful.
I hope it just the beginning.
Yours for free for the little college with the big ideas

Walkin' with Uncle max

Last weekend went on a walk with Aboriginal wise fella and good bloke Uncle Max.
He took a bunch of us whitefellas and ladies around some Aboriginal sites in Kuringai NP.
He has a lovely casual teaching style, showing us plants to eat and sharing stories of growing up.
He showed us this whale dreaming site and I was amazed to realise how intricatre the carvings were.

There was even a gutter and pool carved into the rock in drain the water away.
It was such an honor to connect with this timeless culture that we have tried to ignore and destroy.
Max has a message of working with nature and listening to it's voice.
He accepted us into his world, the real Australia.
We went to a cave where Governor Phillip was also offered a dry place out of the rain 200 years ago.
He was too thick to listen as he realised later.


I hope we aren't to thick to listen?

Visit to Benchmark mastering

Last week we took a couple of tracks by the kids of Kirinari to be mastered at Australias legendary Benchmark mastering.
Run be the equally legendary Don Bartley who has worked on more hit records than you've hot dinners.
Reece Tunbridge did a great job of explaining the process to the eager students.
It's a bit of a black art.

I liken it to a kiss and a cuddle before you send your work out into the world.
Benchmark use Apogee convertors to convert the digital signal back to analog so the process is all analog.
They have heaps of tasty gear to make your mixes sound loud and clear and good on the radio.
The results were mixed mostly because my mixes were a little flawed. Tamborine too loud. Big doof too loud not enough drums.
Kindly Reece offered to do it again if I remix which I will as soon as i get a chance.
Thank you Bench mark.
Thankyou Reece.

Sarah 's Celtic feel

Heres a track from Gymeas latest discovery.
These youngies have out Corred the Corrs.
Listen to it and realise anything is possible.
I hope they do more.
It makes me proud.
Really Trully.
And they're givin it away free.
So they are generous as well as talented.

Kirinari Rocks

Here is one of the tracks from two of the best students I've ever had Adam and Julia.
Their song is very sweet and heartfelt and i hope they make many more.
There is another great Hip hop track that some other students cooked up, I'll put that up soon.
Also heres the clip we made.
Make sure you turn the song off before you watch the clip~!

Unfortunately you cant access this from a DET machine.

Naughties rock gymea under 5s

Theyre more fun than open heart surgery.
Meet the Naughties.
Gymeas newest kids group.
Hear their tracks and dance like a piece of spaghetti
And they did it all in 3 hours.
We put the pressure on these guys and they saved the starving!

Goodbye and Good Luck

Music and screen courses are over for the year.
Listen to some of the student versions of the James Bond theme.
Good luck to you all.
Remember -whether you think you can or you think you can't,
you are probably right!

Some of the girls who are Canary

This is Kat and Rhiann who along with Rebecca wrote a song called "Didn't mean to be so angry" which is very good.
It might even be a hit on FBI if they sent it to them.
Will they write another?
Not sure.
But they had a great time doing this one and sing very well together.
Maybe they need some more encouragement?

Hanne's Musique Concrete

This is a very clever piece of audio editing to create a musical piece by Screen student Hanne Oconnor.
Using the techniques of an old French Fella named Pierre Schaffer she has come up with this funky track,
Enjoy.